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yes already had that happen once snapped the cam in 2 places, i forgot to mention its a 1.9 xud td

having had enough of the tensioner destroying aux belts i decided to bite the bullet and get a new tensioner, picked one up from gsf and set to work removing the old one , a nightmare in itself, but after a hr of grated knuckles and water pipes discontected etc i finally freed the old one, i then re...

thanks for all the replies and advice, i finally got chance to check the car out yesterday and it seems like i had the timming one tooth out, how the hell i managed that with the locking pins in i'll never know but somehow i did it ,think that should get me to the top of the muppet class lol only th...

i'll try that, just concerned its something serious, working nights this week so hopefuly if weather ok will can chance to check it

no it just gives a quick rev then dies, wont rev or tick over and will only do its quick rev think after around 10 seconds on the key but dies straight away, the only thing i did wonder regaurding timming was that the pump pulley did move slightly when i removed the pin but wouldn't have thought tha...

thanks for that,thats something to check , where would i find them?

after changing the head on my 406 and it actually running fine for couple of months i noticed a small drip of collant coming from underneath , worked out it was coming water pump gasket, overthe weekend i set about doing it, i locked the pump cam and flywheel then removed the wp, fitted new gasket a...

totaly agree with all thats been said and learnt the hard way its a good way to waste money , fitted a induction kit to my rover 620ti some years ago its cost me over 100quid, feeling all smug set off to the rolling road and first thing the guy said was "who stuck that stupid thing there?", anyway t...

i know there are a lot of experienced pug people on here, so looking for peoples opinions on metal head gaskets, finally got around to getting the head off my 1.9td (what a nightmare), to my suprise there was only the faintest of marks on 1 piston despite the cam being snapped in 2 places, anyway ha...

after getting the head for the car i've been doing bits at it slowly and now its ready to go back together, the problem i'm having now is finding out which gasket i need for the head spoke to a few suppliers and even when given them the the engine code they still say there are different ones,they re...

thanks for that , the long job begins now , when the head turns up

after a long time with the car sitting idle i finally decided to buy a complete second hand cylinder head (after timing jumped and snapped the cam), due to funds and time the car hasn't been touched but want it running again now, started to do a strip down as if doing a timing belt but when i came t...

no its a 1.9, is just the guy said he can take head off with manifolds on and replace the bent valves etc and refit with new gasket and second hand cam

maybe thats why he's trying to talk me into using the head thats on the car and replacing the valves that are bent (if any), said that its easier to leave turbo etc on
the head was only done in the last 20k

could any of you guys help me with labour times, as per my previous thread you will know i've snapped my cam, now i dont mind doing cambelts or even changing the cam etc but i fear some valves may be bent, while passing the local breakers i noticed he had a damaged 406 in, it turns out the owner onl...